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Baude Cordier (fl. early 15th century) was a French composer in the ars subtilior style of late medieval music. Virtually nothing is known of Cordier's life, aside from an inscription on one of his works which indicates he was born in Rheims and had a master of arts. Some scholars identify him with Baude Fresnel, a harpist and organist in the court of Philip the Bold, though other scholars have rejected this.[1]

He is best known for his unique and experimental notational methods, often with shapes relating to the subject matter. These include a heart-shaped staff in Belle, Bonne, Sage, a rondeau about love, and numerous circles in the Tout par compas suy composés rondeau. Such an approach is thought to have inspired later composers, ranging from Gilles Binchois to Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Identity

It has been suggested that Cordier was the nom de plume of Baude Fresnel.[2][1][3][4]

Music

External audio
Tout par compas in a manuscript animation performed by Fortune Obscure

Cordier's works are considered among the prime examples of ars subtilior. In line with that cultural trend, he was fond of using red note notation, also known as coloration, a technique stemming from the general practice of mensural notation. The change in color adjusts the rhythm of a particular note from its usual form. (This musical style and type of notation has also been termed "mannerism" and "mannered notation.")[5]

Ten of Cordier's secular pieces survive, most of which are rondeaux:

• some are in the rhythmically complex late fourteenth-century French style of ars subtilior, such as "Amans amés secretement" (Lovers, love discreetly).[6]
• others are simpler, with greater emphasis on lyrical melody, such as "Belle, Bonne, Sage", also transcribed in HAM, and characterized with "Amans" as a rondeau.

Two of the composer's chansons are in the Chantilly Manuscript and are well-known examples of eye music:

• the love song "Belle, Bonne, Sage" ("Beautiful, Good, Wise"). The manuscript is in the shape of a heart.[7][8]

• a circular canon "Tout par compas suy composés" ("With a compass was I composed")—more eye music, in which the manuscript is written in a circle.[9]

Many commentators have speculated that Cordier's unique and experimental notation inspired certain notation by later composers, such that in as Refrain by Karlheinz Stockhausen,[10] and Gilles Binchois's Je ne pouroye.[11] Cordier's work was among the earliest Western compositions to include performance instructions to explain how to use the specialized notation.[12]

His mass movement in the Apt MS is in the later, simpler fifteenth-century style.

Works

List of compositions by Baude Cordier[13]

Title	No. of voices	Genre	Manuscript source: Folios[n 1]	Reaney
Gloria	3	Mass movement		R 11
Dame excellent ou sont bonté	4	Ballade		R 10
Amans, amés secretement	3	Rondeau		R 6
Belle, bonne, sage, plaisant	3	Rondeau		R 8
Ce jour de l'an que maint	3	Rondeau		R 1
Je suy celuy qui veul	3	Rondeau		R 3
Pour le deffault du noble dieu Bachus	3	Rondeau		R 2
Que vaut avoir qui ne vit	3	Rondeau		R 4
Se cuer d'amant par soy	3	Rondeau		R 7
Tant ay de plaisir et de desplaisance	3	Rondeau		R 5[n 2]
Tout par compas suy composés	3	Rondeau		R 9
No other works by Baude Cordier survive

Editions

Cordier's works are included in the following collections:

• Reaney, Gilbert, ed. (1955). Early Fifteenth-Century Music. Corpus mensurabilis musicae 11. Vol. 1, Works of Baude Cordier, Johannis Cesaris, Johannis Carmen, Johannis Tapissier. Cambridge: American Institute of Musicology. OCLC 83198152.

See also

• Eye music

Notes

References

Sources

Books

• Hoppin, Richard (1978). Medieval Music. The Norton Introduction to Music History (1st ed.). New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-09090-1.
• Strohm, Reinhard (2005) [1993]. The Rise of European Music, 1380-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61934-9.

Journals and articles

• Bergeron, Katherine (2001). "Baude de Rains". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.02341. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Bergsagel, John (December 1972). "Cordier's Circular Canon". The Musical Times. 113 (1558): 1175–1177. doi:10.2307/956587. JSTOR 956587.
• Fallows, David (2001a). "Binchois [Binchoys], Gilles de Bins [Binch, Binche] dit". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.03094. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Fallows, David (2001b). "Tempo and expression marks". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27650. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Günther, Ursula (1984). "Unusual Phenomena in the Transmission of Late 14th Century Polyphonic Music". Musica Disciplina. 38: 87–118. JSTOR 20532271.
• Reaney, Gilbert (2001). "Cordier, Baude". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06474. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Toop, Richard (2001). "Stockhausen, Karlheinz". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.26808. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
• Wright, Craig (April 1973). "Tapissier and Cordier: New Documents and Conjectures". The Musical Quarterly. 59 (2): 177–189. JSTOR 741520.
• "Fresnal, Baude". Grove Music Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.10222. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Baude Cordier.

• List of compositions by Baude Cordier at the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
• Works by Baude Cordier in the Medieval Music Database from La Trobe University
• Free scores by Baude Cordier at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Free scores by Baude Cordier in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

На других языках

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[de] Baude Cordier

Baude Cordier (* vor 1364 in Reims; † vor 1400 in Dijon) war ein französischer Komponist und Harfenist der Frührenaissance.

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- [en] Baude Cordier

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[es] Baude Cordier

Baude Cordier (1380 en Reims-1440) fue un compositor francés, representativo por el estilo musical llamado Ars subtilior. La mayoría de sus obras principales se encuentran en el Codex de Chantilly que es un manuscrito que recopila importante música del Ars subtilior. El manuscrito de la canción de Belle, bonne et sage está en forma de corazón, el canon Tout par compas está en forma de círculo.[1][2] Su música era conocida en Italia, ya que se encontraron varios de sus manuscritos en el norte de Italia. Once obras fueron conservadas en total.

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[ru] Кордье, Бод

Бод Кордье́ (фр. Baude Cordier, род. около 1380 года, Реймс, Франция — ум. около 1440 года, Дижон (?), герцогство Бургундское) — французский композитор, органист и арфист при дворе герцогов Бургундских, представитель стиля Ars subtilior.

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